Amy McGrath

Amy M. McGrath-Henderson (1975-) was an American Democratic politician and former US Marine Corps fighter pilot.

Biography
Amy M. McGrath was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1975, and she grew up in Edgewood in northern Kentucky. She graduated from the Naval Academy in 1997, and she was commissioned a second lieutenant in the US Marine Corps. She became one of the first two female fighter pilots in her squadron, as well as the first woman to fly a combat mission in the US Marine Corps, serving in the Afghanistan War. In 2011, she worked as a congressional fellow to California representative Susan Davis' Washington DC office, and she retired from the armed services in 2017. That same year, she ran for the US House of Representatives from KY-6 as a Democrat, and she opposed Donald Trump's tax cuts, supported the right to choose, addressing climate change, Obamacare, gay rights in the military, and fiscal conservatism. She won the Democratic primary in an upset victory, as she was not supported by the national party.